Recs if you like Babel-17...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

sci-fi visions of BIPOC cultures on other planets or in space. recommendations always welcome!

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!

older science fiction with lgbtq+ characters and/or authors and books that question gender and sexuality

A list of all the novels which won the Best Novel category of the Nebula Awards. To be nominated for this award a story must be 40,000 words or more and published in English in the US and it must be either a science fiction or fantasy story. This list should be in descending order (most recent winners first while earlier winners are further down.

Pieces of fiction with language, linguistics, and communication as themes. I saw some non-fiction lists on this topic, so wanted to add a fiction one as well, as they're really interesting ideas to explore

Speculative fiction about linguistics, translation, and communication with other species. Please share recs, I love this niche and want to read more.

Science fiction and fantasy books that prominently feature linguistics, or language more broadly, as a central theme or important (worldbuilding) element.

Lots of women, sapphic romance, and cozy reads - but not all!

Books with female main characters that have to do with space travel in some form.

These are some of the best cyberpunk books that are worth checking out if you like Bladrunner or the Cyberpunk 2077 video games

The most comprehensive list of award winning sci-fi and fantasy novels. The books on this list have won either 1 or multiple awards out of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus Sci-Fi, Locus Fantasy, goodreads Choice Fantasy, or goodreads Science Fiction Awards.

Good science fiction that hasn't caught on yet, used to be big but is fading from popular consciousness, or never got the recognition it deserved. Limit 1-2 books to represent each author.

Science fiction books in english published between 1960 and 1969 (going by when it was published as a book, generally).

Books discussed on the podcast SFUltra